Valid regular expression not working with validator control

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Andrew Jocelyn

Hi

I get a JavaScript error with this expression when using the
RegExpValidator. Also if I switch off client script the server side code
validator finds a match regardless of the entered string.

(?<!@emailaddressnotallowed\.org)$

Is there a way of writing this so it works with the validator in both client
side and server side?

Thanks
Andrew
 
Hello Andrew,
Hi

I get a JavaScript error with this expression when using the
RegExpValidator. Also if I switch off client script the server side
code validator finds a match regardless of the entered string.

(?<!@emailaddressnotallowed\.org)$

Is there a way of writing this so it works with the validator in both
client side and server side?
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Look behinds are not supported in Client Side code. So you need to rewrite
this to either a full expression or to use a look ahead like this:

^regexuptothe@(?!emailaddressnotallowed\.org$)restofthedomainregex$
 
Hi

thanks for the tip. I still can't get what I want to work. I'm using
Expresso to test.

Basically I want to make sure that if an input text includes a certain
domain then validation fails, e.g.

(e-mail address removed) fails
(e-mail address removed) succeeds

Please bear with me as I'm a complete novice with regular expressions.

Thanks again
Andrew
 
Hello Andrew,
Hi

thanks for the tip. I still can't get what I want to work. I'm using
Expresso to test.

Basically I want to make sure that if an input text includes a certain
domain then validation fails, e.g.

(e-mail address removed) fails
(e-mail address removed) succeeds
Please bear with me as I'm a complete novice with regular expressions.
Click to expand...

^[^@]+@(?!not-allowed-domain.com$).*$

should do, though it doesn't check the syntax of the email address itself,
it does exclude the domain you want.

Jesse
 
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